Ham and Cheese Bun Recipe

Ham and cheese buns are perfect for dinner on a chilly day. They’re also great for a game-day lunch! Imagine ham and cheese coming together in a lovely warm dinner bun. Yes, it’s as delicious as it sounds!

Course Bread Machine Recipes

Cuisine American

Keyword cheese, ham, ham and cheese

Servings (18 rolls - 2 per person)

Calories 399kcal

Equipment

Ingredients

1 1/2 cup milk
4 cups bread flour
1 1/4 teaspoon salt
4 Tablespoons sugar
1 1/2 Tablespoons olive oil
1 3/4 teaspoons active dry yeast
12 ounces ham cooked
4.5 Slice American Cheese any kind of cheese will work

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

I make this ham and cheese bun recipe in my two-pound machine. It makes 18 ham and cheese buns. Note that you’ll be using the dough setting.
Follow the instructions that came with your bread machine in terms of which ingredients to put in the bread machine first. I have a Zojirushi machine and with that I add the liquids first.
Make sure you check on the dough after five or ten minutes of kneading. Just pop the top of the bread machine. The dough should be a smooth, round ball. If it’s too dry add liquid a teaspoon at a time until it looks as expected. If it looks too wet, add flour a tablespoon at a time until it looks OK.
When the dough is done put it on a lightly floured board and divide it into 18 pieces of approximately equal size.
Make each of the pieces into a dough ball. Then, flatten each dough ball into a circle of about four inches in diameter. Add ham and a little cheese.
To form the buns, bring the dough from the sides up and around the meat and cheese to the top of the bun. Pinch it at the top to hold it in place.
Place the formed rolls on a greased cookie sheet. (Parchment paper works great too!)
Cover the rolls with a clean, light-weight kitchen towel and let the rolls rise for half an hour. Then remove the towel and put the rolls in an oven preheated to 375 degrees for about 17 minutes.

Notes

This is a recipe for a two-pound machine. You’ll be using the dough setting.

Hint: I usually make the bread with active dry yeast. If time is short you can make this recipe with the quick dough cycle of your bread machine by substituting the active dry yeast with three teaspoons of fast-rising (rapid rise) yeast.

You can make this recipe your own by making simple changes.

Use different types of cheese
Add a little diced garlic to each roll
Add garlic powder to dough
One reader reports that bacon and cheese buns are very tasty too!

Metric Measurements: This recipe was developed and tested using US customary measurements. Metric measurements are calculated automatically.

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